Future OSINT plans

The future of our OSINT range of training programmes looks ever more promising. The OSINT Pathfinder range of training programmes will continue to be offered about four times a year. On top of that, we plan the following:

Online training

We will offer in the near future a full OSINT training programme online.

The idea is to schedule the training in modules of no more than 3 hours. Each module will be offered twice, one in a CEST timezone, the other in ET (USA) timezone. Documentation as usual will be extensive, and in print. Participants will indeed get a postal package with all the stuff they need to complete the OSINT training.

OSINT Master training

We are working to organise an OSINT Master training near the end of this year.

The Master is the follow-up of the Pathfinder and is a scenario exercise where groups of former Pathfinders are challenged to solve a complex scenarion exercise following the OSINT Methodology studies during a Pathfinder.

There is obviously also a short refresher of Pathfinder and some extra things such as a lesson on how to compile an OSINT report, the art of writing for intelligence, fact checking and geolocating.

Intelligence Analysis training

We will work on a new course, where we combine OSINT with intelligence analysis techniques.

We are looking at a 4 day training here, with an expert intel analysis trainer (I have two candidates already) taking two days and the OSINT training doing the first two days. The overall idea is this:

• OS – we retrieved open source information that is reliable, timely, relevant, validated etc,
• INT – now what are we going to do with it?

Giving a set of open source information that meets certain quality criteria, what intelligence analysis techniques would be useful to try and analyse the information. How does one then use these techniques to produce an intelligence report.

Refreshers

We like the concept of offering a yearly refresher to former participants of the Pathfinder training.

The only thing is that we wonder if a four hour refresher is too long. Is it a better idea to offer a refresher per theme and then maximum 90 minutes or so. In that case we would like to offer about 4 refreshers per year. Participants will obviously get updated documentation.

Let us know your thoughts on this one.